Housekeeping: Happy Memorial Day
Once again, we're taking a break on Monday to honor those who died fighting for freedom.
We may also be getting outside, grilling, relaxing, seeing friends and/or family, watching Indycar, watching NASCAR, watching F1...you get the picture.
Every year someone notes how what should be a solemn holiday turns into a weekend that's often anything but. People have fun, a lot of merch gets placed on sale, and the weekend is seen as the start of summer.
I won't say more on that -- I just want you all to be safe and don't drink and drive. We'll see you back here on Tuesday.
Happy Memorial Day, everybody.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Take some time today to realize that virtually zero soldiers had died defending your border.
And a thankful Memorial day to all.
Our BN in Iraq lost their CDR, driver, gunner, interpersonal and RTO when his M1151 Hummer was hit by a 1000 lb VBIED (car bomb). We took the casualties back to the FOB. It brings a lot of things into perspective when you have a family knowing the families of those KIA a will never be the same from their loss. My three boys were1, 2, and 7 at the time.
We need to remember our fallen law enforcement officers as well.